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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I remember rumours in 1983 after The Mirage tour, which was only 18 American cities, a tiny amount when compared to the far larger prior four tours.
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You remember nothing of the sort, strandford. There was no rumor that the band had split in 1983.
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I always thought the tour was shortened because they were not all that happy being together again.
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I'm going to hit you. How did you know at the time that the tour was shortened? At the time (& I followed the tour very closely by attending, reading news & staying in constant touch with the fan network), I just thought it was a short tour. (Actually, to be a bit more brutally honest, it was STEVIE who was periodically written about & talked about as the cause of Fleetwood Mac's short tour & periods of inactivity -- see the Record article in 1982 by David Gans.)
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Put it this way, the TITN album was couched in terms of reuniting 
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You're being disingenuous (the way you were with "sovereign). "Reuniting" can mean "We broke up but now we're reuniting" -- like VAN HALEN in 2007 -- & it can mean "We haven't done anything for a long time & now we're working on something new." The latter is what applies to the Fleetwood Mac situation in 1986.
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You really don't think that LB had all but unofficially walked away from FM after the Mirage tour?
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No, I don't! At least not in the all-or-nothing terms you frame it in. It's a really myopic view of yours that Lindsey walked away in 1983. They ALL walked away -- the band went into one of its lengthy periods of inactivity. The band did
not break up, &
none of its members left. As has been said a million times, by people inside & outside the band, things were put ON HOLD.
What would Lindsey have been walking away from, incidentally? Inactivity?
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To me, it's obvious - though I readily admit he publicly did not officially leave the band until 1987.
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Gee, are you sure you want to go out on a limb like that?
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I think this is why Stevie went ful steam ahead in the solo market. I think she thought that there was no use waiting for FM and IMO LB to get back together and in the studio.
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Well, you've neatly wrapped that sucker right up.
"Lindsey refuses to come back & work with Fleetwood Mac, so I'm gonna have a solo career! Muaahahahahaaahaaa!!"